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RE: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>,"Barubary" <barubary at home dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:15:46 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:11 AM
> To: Barubary; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: NTFS Case-Sensitive Filenames
>
>
> At 12:12 AM 6/23/2001, Barubary wrote:
> >Is there any particular reason why Cygwin doesn't use NTFS's built-in
> >support for case-sensitive filenames when it exists?
>
>
>
> Yes, Windows tools don't understand them. See the email archives if
> you're interested in the details of previous discussions on this
> subject. It actually hasn't come up in quite some time (years?)
>
Actually, it popped up about 3 months back IIRC.
Rob
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